Outside the Beltway

An accurate description.

A billionaire troll with a West Wing office.

Trump is giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists.

What to call non-crazies who aren’t Democrats?

Being against something just isn’t enough.

The laying out of the case begins.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

A blast from the past.

The mirage of semi-order faded quickly.

Reacting to the asymmetrical polarization of the electorate.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Of course, it depends on what case one thinks needs to have been made.

So, it turns out that Fox News wasn’t really all that fair or balanced.

Could a blue state governor be the future of the Republican Party?

The conversation continues. (Warning: it is over 3000 words).

The plurality of New Hampshire voters are unaffiliated. Should they all stay at home?

There’s a campaign to encourage anti-Trump Republicans and independents to vote in New Hampshire.

Joe Walsh, a former Tea Party stalwart who served in Congress nine years ago, has thrown his hat in the ring against President Trump for the 2020 GOP Presidential Nomination.

A considerable number of Republican have effectively left our party over Donald Trump. Should we go all the way?

Could Maryland Governor Larry Hogan be just the kind of Republican to challenge Trump in 2020?

Thanks apparently to the fact that it remained unwilling to get in line behind the Trumpidians, the conservative owner of The Weekly Standard has shut the magazine down.

President Trump reportedly vetoed a plan to issue a statement lauding Senator John McCain after he died on Saturday.

The President teased the Jobs Report an hour before it was officially released. This was both a violation of Federal law, and yet another example of this President violating long-established norms governing how politicians are supposed to act.

Donald Trump’s entire modus operandi involves pushing divisive cultural hot buttons.